Captain Dynamo was the respected hero of Tower City. He was well loved
as he protected the city with his super strength, flight, x-ray and eye
beams, shape shifting, and telepathy. Sadly, a day came when Captain
Dynamo was killed. His widow, Maddie Warner, discovered his little
black book and learned that he had fathered five children with five
different women behind her back, usually by using his shape-shifting
ability. Although feeling betrayed, she realized the children had the
same DNA as their father, got them together, and exposed them to the
same radiation giving them super powers, thus giving birth to Dynamo 5.
Among the Dynamo 5 is over-achiever Slingshot who had her father’s
speed and flight and womanizer Myriad who received his father’s shape
shifting. Together with Dynamo 5, they have to learn to work together
as a team and as family, whether they like it or not.

Slingshot, a.k.a. Olivia “Livvie” Lewis grew up believing her
adoptive father, Neil, to be her biological father who raised her all
her life after her mother died. She was the second child of Captain
Dynamo’s to be approached by Maddie. She was already having a tough
time handling her school work and finding time for her boyfriend when
she decided to join her newly discovered siblings in protecting the
city. She quickly accepted her siblings and even took to Maddie as a
reporter she greatly admired. But it wasn’t too long that her time as a
superhero started to cross over into her already hectic life. Her
boyfriend ended up breaking up on her via text on Valentine’s Day and
after her father was kidnapped, she was blackmailed by former employees
of assassin, Lionel Barstow, to free the assassin. While Barstow killed
his employees and threatened to reveal Livvie’s alter ego, she took
Barstow to the authorities anyway. After Livvie explained to her father
the whole situation with Dynamo 5 and Captain Dynamo, Neil felt
betrayed, believing that his wife had cheated on him during their
marriage. Livvie, though, brought up the fact that Captain Dynamo used
his shape-shifting abilities to morph into Neil, thus revealing that
his wife didn’t quite cheat on him.

Spencer Bridges, a.k.a. Myraid, is a half-breed alien who was given
up by his alien mother. Although his mother wanted to keep him, it was
not in her people’s customs to accept a half-breed in their world. His
mother went to Earth and gave her son to his father, Captain Dynamo.
Not wanting this child to jeopardize his marriage with Maddie, Dynamo
put his son in the custody of F.L.A.G. (Foundation for Law and
Government) research facility and told them he found the baby at an
alien crash site, not informing them the baby was his child. The
scientists experimented on the baby and exposed him to radiation that
gave Dynamo his powers. The radiation gave Spencer his shape-shifting
ability. He began to give himself human features of an African-American
after forming a friendship with one of his female doctors, Dr. Bridges,
who’s surname he eventually adopted. After unsuccessfully trying to
talk the other doctors into letting Spencer go, she helped sneak
Spencer out of F.L.A.G and left him for child services where he spent
the next few years of his life in various foster homes. At the age of
13, Spencer went on his own, adopting Spencer Bridges as his name and
eventually met Maddie, who promised to pay him to meet up with her.
Always curious about who his father was, Spencer was disappointed to
learn it was Captain Dynamo who he saw as a hypocrite and terrible
husband. When Dynamo 5 disbanded for a short while, his sister, Scrap
aka Bridget, decided to continue the team with new members including a
woman with martial arts skills and strength named Vigil. It was
eventually revealed Vigil was in fact Spencer. When the original
members of the group reformed, Scatterbrain aka Gage, Spencer’s
brother, questioned Spencer about shape-shifting into a woman and also
his sexuality. Spencer confides in Gage, telling him that as part of
his alien DNA, he would label himself as gay nor heterosexual and takes
his abilities of shape-shifting as way of experimentation that presents
many opportunities.

When the team is kidnapped by their evil sister, Synergy, another
child of their father‘s flings, and Father Gideon, Maddie’s son of
another marriage, their powers are stripped away. They eventually are
exposed to the same radiation again, only this time Livvie gets
Spencer’s ability to shape shift but is only able to transform into
animals while Spencer receives Gage’s abilities of telepathy. While
Livvie seems to get the hang of her new powers and names herself
Menagerie, Spencer begins to feel like an outsider due to his inability
to shield his alien look although using his alien look to strike fear
within criminals as a vigilante named Wraith.

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About the Author - Greg

Greg DAE is a Brooklyn born film-maker, writer, actor, and horror/comic fiend. He was one of the first writers of The Outhouse and one of the two original Bludnet writers. One day he’ll be an accomplished comic book writer…. Or else.